I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.

You have to act and act now.

You have to stop loving me. Because I stopped loving you.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.

Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.